Baked bacon and onion roly poly

Panda.s
Panda.s @cook_3715208
London/ Essex Border. U.K.

A winter filler upper

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Ingredients

60 mins
6 servings
  1. 8 ozbacon or ham, chopped
  2. 1red or white onion, chopped
  3. 1/4 pintsgravy
  4. 8 ozself raising flour
  5. 1 pincheach, salt & pepper
  6. 4 ozsuet, vegetable or beef
  7. 1/4 pintscold water
  8. 4 ozmushrooms, sliced (optional)

Cooking Instructions

60 mins
  1. 1

    Fry bacon/ham in a little oil, do not brown, remove from pan

  2. 2

    Add onion to pan, fry gently until transparent, if using mushrooms add at this stage, return bacon to pan.

  3. 3

    Add sufficient gravy to moisten, you don't want it too wet, combine and allow to cool.

  4. 4

    Heat oven to 200C

  5. 5

    Place flour, suet and salt & pepper in a bowl, add enough water to make a firm dough.

  6. 6

    On a floured surface roll into a rectangle approximately 3/8 -1/4 inch thick

  7. 7

    Spread cooled bacon mixture evenly over pastry leaving a half inch gap all round edge.

  8. 8

    Moisten edges with water, from wide side roll like a swiss roll, ensure edges are sealed, place on a greased baking sheet with the seam at the bottom.

  9. 9

    Cook in centre of oven for 45- 60minutes, until golden brown

  10. 10

    Serve sliced with potatoes and vegetables of choice and lots of gravy

  11. 11

    You can spread a thin coat of your favourite barbecue sauce on the pastry before adding the bacon mixture for added flavour.

  12. 12

    You can use this pastry (without the pepper) to make a jam or syrup roly poly, roll out pastry as above, spread with jam, raspberry for preference, or syrup, roll and bake as above, serve with lashings of custard.

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Panda.s
Panda.s @cook_3715208
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London/ Essex Border. U.K.
When I left school I trained as a chef,worked in 5*London hotel for a few years.Drifted into transport planning,retired, do most of the cooking at home.Now have more time to play (experiment) in the kitchen, like to add my own twist to recipes ( my wife calls it 'tampering'!) bake bread and make / decorate novelty cakes for family and close friends.Two daughters and three grandchildren. Celebrated Ruby wedding anniversary with wife Pam 2014.
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